"Board of Lady Managers of the LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, Authorized by Act of Congress March III MDCCCCI - Report to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission." 1905 1st edition; The Riverside Press / H.O. Houghton and Company; Cambridge, MA. Also included is a typed letter from the President of the Board of Lady Managers, Mary Margaretta Manning, dated October 28, 1905. The book features numerous photographic portraits of Board members, a map of the outline of the Louisiana Purchase, photographs of the Board's building and interior rooms, and an illustration of the signing of the Treaty of the Louisiana Purchase by Livingston, Monroe, and Marbois (each illustration has a captioned tissue guard over it). Gilt top page edges. Hefty book with 350 pages.